H.L. Mencken Quotes

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American journalist, editor, and critic, H.L. Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1888. Mencken wielded tremendous influence regarding southern intellectual life in the 1920s and was a contributor to Smart Set and American Mercury. His crusade against Puritanism and provincialism sent shock waves through the south, as did his indictment on southern culture, "The Sahara of Bozart," published i…